A European Court of Justice has ruled that Google must remove personal information from search results at the request of an individual. Now the tech giant is granting the first of those requests.

Google has a webform that asks for a person's name, email address, and the URL links that they would like removed. The form also asks for "a legible copy of a document that verifies your identity" in order to "prevent fraudulent removal requests from people impersonating others, trying to harm competitors, or improperly seeking to suppress legal information." The form also states that Google will only remove links that they deem to be "inadequate, irrelevant, or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed."

Once the information is gone, a disclaimer will appear in place of certain links in Google searches saying that information has been removed. More than 50,000 requests have already been made.

Keep in mind, though, that Google is complying with a European ruling here. So it's not removing information from Google.com searches—only from searches on the European versions of its site.